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Here is the full transcript of the interview, broadcast on 15 September.
Tim Sebastian: How much do you share the concern of many people in Russia about how the loss of the Kursk submarine was handled by the authorities?
Mikhail Gorbachev: August was really tough - you could say we went through a kind of crisis. The explosion in the underpass in Moscow, then the nuclear submarine catastrophe, and the fire in the Ostankino television tower - all this put the spotlight on some poor media management.
TS: So the information was handled badly, the information handed down to the public?
Hardtalk bbc gorbachev biography
MG: I think the authorities initially - in all cases, but particularly with the submarine - well actually, things were pretty clear straight away with the blast in Moscow - the authorities didn't give out the full information.
I even felt that the president himself didn't get all the facts. And that's really bad.